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...attempts to redress the problem by requiring state universities to automatically admit students in the top 10% of their high school classes and allowing the universities to consider "a variety of other factors" in assessing the top 15% to 25%. Some schools, such as the state-owned University of Houston law school, encourage applicants to write about their family background as a way around the requirement that the application contain no "race" box to check...
...Brown, winner of the league's citizenship award. Near the end of the game, Ward backed into Brown, almost upending him. Brown then hooked an arm around Ward's waist, flipped him as if he were a cheerleader and threw him to the floor. Knicks Patrick Ewing, Allan Houston, Larry Johnson and John Starks left their bench, a lesser N.B.A. no-no. The N.B.A. gave a record five Knicks a one-game suspension. Miami's Brown was suspended for two games; Ward...
...HOUSTON: Russia's space program was dealt another blow as a Zenit-2 booster rocket carrying a military satellite exploded and crashed after liftoff from Kazakstan. The explosion was caused by an emergency shutdown of the rocket's first stage engines 48 seconds after launch, Russian Space Agency officials said. No injuries were reported. It was the twenty-eighth launch and seventh failure of a Zenit-2 since 1985. For Russia, the disaster is the latest in a string of setbacks, which have included fires on-board Mir and delays in the construction of critical components for the international space...
...similar growth curve. Compaq had 1996 revenues of $18.2 billion, more than triple its annual revenues just four years earlier. The industry's next wave of growth is being propelled by falling prices that put the cost of a machine closer to that of a household appliance. Houston-based Compaq introduced its Presario 2100 for $999 in February. Others have low-priced PCs too. Now the industry is bracing for a quantum leap in demand as people who previously couldn't afford a computer rush to buy one on the notion that one day a PC will be as indispensable...
...claimed the NBA's decision to suspend violated the league's collective bargaining agreement, which mandates that such a rule must be negotiated with the Players' Union. The ruling, which upholds the harshest suspension in NBA playoff history, left the Knicks without the services of Patrick Ewing and Allen Houston in Game 6 of the playoffs Friday in New York. Larry Johnson and John Starks will serve their suspensions either in Game 7 or Game 1 against the Bulls. Both Charlie Ward and P.J. Brown, who were involved in the initial entanglement, did not dispute the NBA's ruling...